Unity Launcher now includes dash home icon, and Unity panel no longer has dash icon, just basic global menu along with minimize, maximize and close buttons.

New polished look for dash home menu, offering ability to search through your application, files, folders, and Music. Also searching result can be limited using search filters with suitable search filters you want.

Search Applications with applied search filters for different applications categories. also you can select application type and the rate to search through Ubuntu Software Center using your selected rating and compare it previously posted rating by other users.

Gwibber social network client has many enhancements and become more reliable and smoother sliding effect between home, messages, …etc.

Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client has been updated to development version 7 as well.

New Ubuntu Software Center 4.1.2 is the default software center otherwise earlier version of Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 3 it had the old looking software center and ability to access the new software center using command.

Same application switcher we seen earlier in Alpha 3 but now used by Alt+Tab and you still can change it using CCSM.

Ability to select between wallpapers and themes using drop down menu in appearance window.

More Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Beta 1 screenshots

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Beta 2 expected to be released in September 22nd, 2011.

Sexy and light, with no damned Evolution! Hooray!
The only sad thing – there is some package (ubuntu, may be) what depends on ether Firefox or Chromium – so you can’t delete Firefox and install Google Chrome, you will have Chrome and Firefox or Chrome and Chromium – it drives me crazy -_-
Just realised, what i’ll never updated my system to next release – always reinstalling. I’ll just delete ubuntu package ^_^